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The ITF has announced four new international broadcaster agreements in advance of this weekend’s Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group first round ties on 6-8 March to further expand the coverage of the competition. Davis Cup will be broadcast in all 16 nations contesting this weekend’s World Group ties, with 21 broadcasters covering the feature tie between Great Britain and USA in Glasgow. A total of 50 broadcasters will cover Davis Cup this weekend across the World Group and Zone Group ties.
Seven (Australia), Czech TV and Saran Media (Kazakhstan) have all signed multi-year deals with the ITF, while RTBF (Belgium) has signed an agreement for the first round tie between Belgium and Switzerland to guarantee coverage across all World Group nations.
Earlier this year the ITF announced a new strategic media rights partnership with beIN SPORTS for Davis Cup by BNP Paribas and Fed Cup by BNP Paribas. beIN SPORTS will broadcast this weekend’s Davis Cup feature tie on its own channels across South East Asia.
The partnership between ITF and beIN SPORTS is designed to increase the global exposure and quality of Davis Cup and Fed Cup coverage across both linear and digital channels to the benefit of the millions of tennis fans around the world who follow the competitions. In 2014, there were over 7,500 hours of dedicated Davis Cup TV coverage by 63 broadcasters in over 150 territories worldwide reaching a global audience of over 100 million viewers.
The official home and away broadcasters of this weekend’s Davis Cup World Group first round ties are as follows:
Germany v France: SAT. 1 Gold (home); France TV / Sport+ (away)
Great Britain v USA: British Eurosport / BBC (home); The Tennis Channel (away)
Czech Republic v Australia: Czech TV (home); Seven (away)
Kazakhstan v Italy: Kazsport (home); Supertennis (away)
Argentina v Brazil: TyC Sports (home); Globosat (away)
Serbia v Croatia: RTS (home); HRT (away)
Canada v Japan: Rogers Sportsnet (home); Wowow (away)
Belgium v Switzerland: RTBF (home); SRG SSR (away)
Davis Cup by BNP Paribas is the World Cup of Tennis. It is the largest annual international team competition in sport, with 126 nations entered in 2015. The competition is 115 years old having been founded in 1900. The title sponsor is BNP Paribas, the Official Bank of Davis Cup. International sponsors are Rolex (Official Timekeeper), Adecco (Official HR Sponsor) and NH Hotels (Official Hotel). beIN SPORTS is the Official Global Media Rights Partner. Follow all the action on http://www.daviscup.com, http://www.copadavis.com, http://www.twitter.com/daviscup, http://www.facebook.com/DavisCupTennis, http://www.Weibo.com/daviscupofficial and http://www.daviscup.tv.
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